Discovery Quotes

Man's material discoveries have outpaced his moral progress.

We get closer to God as we get more intimately and understandingly acquainted with the things He has created. I know of nothing more inspiring than that of making discoveries for one's self.

Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you know you can lose.

To make discoveries, you have to be curious about why the universe is the way it is.

Effective health care depends on self-care; this fact is currently heralded as if it were a discovery.

The charm of a woodland road lies not only in its beauty but in anticipation. Around each bend may be a discovery, an adventure.

[My poetry is] a way of coming to grips with reality . . . a way of discovery and definition. It is a way of solving for the unknowns.

Relax, you're on a journey of discovery. Let life reveal itself to you.

An artist is an explorer. He has to begin by self-discovery and by observation of his own procedure. After that he must not feel under any constraint.

Science is the discovery of how God does things.

Ralph also took some classes in philosophy and literature and felt himself on the brink of some kind of huge discovery about himself. But it never came.

What you are you do not see, what you see is your shadow.

An experiment disproving a prediction is discovery.

Lands of great discoveries are also lands of great injustices.

We can always gain more depth and breadth in our work [as educators]. There are always new discoveries to be made.

Once fire was discovered, the instinct for improvement made men bring food to it. First to dry it, then to put it on the coals to cook.

Our understanding of the world is achieved more effectively by conceptual improvements than by discovery of new facts

Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.

If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.

What you truly learn best will appear to you later as your own discovery.

Out on the roads there is fitness and self-discovery and the persons we were destined to be.

At lunch Francis [Crick] winged into the Eagle to tell everyone within hearing distance that we had found the secret of life.

One must know one's own secret.

You are not creating a new you; you are releasing a hidden you. The process is one of self discovery. The hidden you that wants to emerge is in perfect balance.

That every day should be a fiesta seemed to me a wonderful discovery.

Since nothing is so secret or hidden that it cannot be revealed, everything depends on the discovery of those things that manifest the hidden.

I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.

For me, the act of photography is all about discovery and finding new things.

A library is where ideas sleep between covers, waiting for you to discover them.

The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face.

I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want.

I do think that there is an innocence to people who are searching for things. It's a beautiful thing when you leave yourself vulnerable to discover anything and everything.

The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.

She wasn't tracking down her father to learn more about him. She was tracking him down to learn more about herself.

Writing is a process of discovery of what you really do know. You can't limit yourself in advance to what you know, because you don't know everything you know.

we can harness the energy of the winds, the seas, the sun . But the day man learns to harness the energy of love, that will be as important as the discovery of fire.

I invented nothing new, I simply assembled the discoveries of other men behind whom there was centuries of work.

Each man's life represents a road toward himself.

One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.

We read books to find out who we are.

The four rules of writing... 1. Write to discover. 2. There is no greater discovery than love. 3. All love comes from the Creator. 4. Write what you will.

The first steps in the path of discovery, and the first approximate measures, are those which add most to the existing knowledge of mankind.

Cubism did not accept the logical consequences of its own discoveries; it was not developing abstraction towards its own goal, the expression of pure reality.

The moment I decided to follow instead of lead, I discovered the joys of becoming part of a small child's world.

We follow a path of discovery, strung like pearls on a thread of curiosity, lending richness to our work.

We shall never learn to feel and respect our real calling and destiny, unless we have taught ourselves to consider every thing as moonshine, compared with the education of the heart.

Change only favours minds that are diligently looking and preparing for discovery.

When we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at once our original selves.

The ancient codes were doubtless originally suggested by the discovery and diffusion of the art of writing.

There is nothing so far removed from us as to be beyond our reach, or so hidden that we cannot discover it.